In recent years, comprehensive texts have been written
for several of the other major areas of Artificial Intelligence, including
machine learning, natural-language processing, and constraint-satisfaction
processing, but until now, the field of planning has been devoid of
such a resource, despite the considerable number of advances in and
the significant maturation of planning research in the past decade.
With Automated Planning: Theory and Practice, Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau,
and Paolo Traverso have filled that void, and have done so with a remarkably
clear and well-written book.
--From the Foreword by Martha E. Pollack, University
of Michigan
Automated planning technology has become mature
enough to be useful in a variety of demanding applications, in areas
ranging from controlling space vehicles and robots to playing the
game of bridge. This is creating new opportunities for synergy between
theory and practice: observing what works well in practice can lead
to better theories of planning, and better theories can lead to better
performance in practical applications.
Automated Planning offers a comprehensive,
up-to-date resource on both the theory and practice of automated
planning. The book goes well beyond classical planning, to include
temporal planning, resource scheduling, planning under uncertainty,
and modern techniques for plan generation, including propositional
satisfiability, constraint satisfaction, and model checking.
The authors combine over 30 years experience in
planning research and development to offer an invaluable texts to
researchers, professionals, and graduate students.
- Comprehensively explains the various paradigms for automated
planning.
- Provides a thorough understanding of theory, planning practice,
and how they relate to each other.
- Presents case studies of applications in space, robotics, CAD/CAM,
process control, emergency operations and games.
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